With all their million voices sweet and blest,
They gave me welcome. So I slowly trod
Their arched and lofty aisles, with heart at rest.

_Ninth pupil._

Forests can flourish independent of agriculture; but
agriculture cannot prosper without forests.

_Tenth pupil._

The man who builds does a work which begins to decay as soon
as he has done, but the work of the man who plants trees
grows better and better, year after year, for generations.

_Eleventh pupil._

Of all man's works of art a cathedral is greatest. A vast
and majestic tree is greater than that.

--H.W. BEECHER.

_Twelfth pupil._

In an agricultural country the preservation or destruction
of forests must determine the decision of Hamlet's
alternative: "to be or not to be." An animal flayed or a
tree stripped of its bark does not perish more surely than a
land deprived of the trees.